Conley v. Dyeb
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from the District Court of Garfield County. Hon. John T. Shumate, Judge. Action by Joseph. M. Dyer, Otto Hanawald, Jefferson Corley, Mrs. Nettie Schultz, William Kissee, Otis Corley, J. B. Fry, George Wrightman, J. B. Fuller and Jacob H. Evans, appellees, against Edgar A. Conley, Phil Younger, George Douglas, B. Staton, Charles Staton and Ira Cissna, appellants-. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants, other than defendant Curry, appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Helm
The present controversy relates to priorities in Water. District No. 45, as determined by a decree entered on May 5th, 1888. This district lies west of the Continental Divide and includes territory contiguous to Grand* river and certain of its tributaries. It was the district in which the first general adjudication of water rights took place in that portion of the *24state known as the Western Slope. At the time of this adjudication it was impossible to determine with accuracy or completeness some of the questions involved in such proceedings; the government surveys had not yet been extended…
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